Oh Snap!!

This weekend officially kicked off the new season of soccer. So let the craziness begin. This year we have all 3 girls on 3 different teams. Bailee’s u-14 team are the Gangsta Beasts, Macey’s u-12 team are the Yellow Jackets, and Cassie’s u-10 team are the Giant Sharks. hahahaha – funny names but they are so excited to be playing games again.

They each had their first game this Saturday. I was only able to watch Bailee and Macey play though since Cassie’s game was at the same time Bailee was playing and they play at different parks. Tom coaches Cassie so someone had to be Bailee’s cheerleader! The overlap of games is going to be the bad thing this year with the schedule. 😦 Bailee and Macey both played last night at 6:00 but luckily they play on fields right next to each other. So we sat in between both fields and did our best at trying to watch and cheer for both games!

And – believe it or not, I actually got some free time to scrap this weekend with Shanna. For about a month or so I’ve had no motivation but alas, I found some mojo this weekend and got some things created to share with you!!!

Luckily, I had gotten this months kit at For the Luv of Art – and as luck would have it, the papers in the kit worked PERFECTLY with some new pictures I had taken of the girls. Can you believe the background of the pictures is actually a semitruck’s trailer that was parked behind our Lowe’s? Isn’t that hi-tech or what? hahahahaha I was thinking of that for future shoots but dang it if it wasn’t gone a few days later.

This card I created by using some of the cute little cameras that came from the 12×12 sheet of Jillibean Soup. The red/white journaling circles are credited to Amy Teets with her September Add-on kit.

Also, I posted this card as this week’s card challenge at For the Luv of Art and I even posted my sketch for you to play along. Not often do I create cards that I can make a sketch off of – so hope you all play along! Not to mention that if you play along – you still get a chance to win the RAK at the end of the month! Extra motivation for you! 🙂

I created this card using the For the Luv of Art papers that Norma and Angel Hartline designed strictly for FTLOA. It’s a 6×6 paper pad that is included in this month’s kit. And that yummy pottery button? Yep – that’s part of the kit too! And those were made by Carrie’s son! Handcrafted and talent must run in the family!

Also – be sure to check out the FTLOA blog post here: I posted a 3 step how to on how to photograph your projects! I’d love to hear your feedback on it. If it’s something you enjoy – I may try to do more tutorials here on my personal blog! So please drop me a line or too!

And I will leave you with this card. I had created this for the last Paper Crafts calls for the hot air balloons but obviously it didn’t get picked up since I’m posting it here! hahaha

I had paper pieced this together by drawing my own heart, wings and basket and using a round chipboard piece to create the balloon. It was a real fun card to make and can never go wrong when you have some fun BoBunny products like this SunKissed line! Plus – I love those SRM Stickers! They are every cardmakers DREAM!

Well, that’s it for me today! Kind of a lot to post about but hope it wasn’t too boring! I hope you have a great week and had an even better weekend! I’d love to hear from you so say hello!

I love all of this! That balloon card is totally fabulous! I actually submitted for a recent call of theirs and totally got rejected. I don’t know what it is they are looking for because that is awesome!

Great projects! I am so glad that Shanna gave your mojo back to ya, lol!

And I was wondering if you submitted that hot air balloon card to the PC call that just went out! They sure missed the boat on picking that one up, girl! It’s soo cute! I also submitted a card for that call for balloons too, and they passed mine up as well! No surprise there… I can’t seem to get in that mag no how!

I hope to play along with your sketch challenge this weekend! Have a good one, Renee!

Hey there, Renee! Sounds like you are busy as usual, my friend! All that soccer playing wears me out just thinking about it. 😉
Love all your scrappy projects. You sure have gotten a ton done. Love those photos of the girls. That truck made the perfect backdrop. Love the title you used and the great design. Gorgeous cards, too. Cannot believe that hot air balloon card wasn’t snatched right up.